Stride Sued For Securities Fraud - When the name Millikan appears, can fraud be far away? https://curmudgucation.substack.com/p/stride-sued-for-securities-fraud?action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MDk5MDcsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE4MjE3MDU3MiwiaWF0IjoxNzY2MjU2MTY0LCJleHAiOjE3Njg4NDgxNjQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xMTE2ODY1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.I0yjwzN09iL0i1lnYJT578VqHVlLMrjCOFJ40Y5D19c #Privatization
#Privatization
The EdReports Scam - Billionaires are creating companies to push science of reading forward to gain more control over public education. https://tultican.com/2025/12/19/the-edreports-scam/ #Privatization
This youtube video introduces my latest article: The EdReports Scam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_yXpnT3bkQ #Privatization
Sue Kingery Woltanski reports Florida’s massive universal voucher system now turns out to be a budget buster, and the new Schools of Hope co-location rules threaten to make matters worse. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/sue-kingery-woltanski-the-real-elephant-in-the-room/ #Privatization
Court Ruling A Roadblock To West Virginia Charter Schools https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/court-ruling-a-roadblock-to-west?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #Privatization
Texas: Why Not Monetize Everything? - In Abbott's Texas if it is for profit it is good. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/12/19/texas-why-not-monetize-everything/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Billionaires are creating businesses that will facilitate their control of public education including the curriculum schools purchase. https://tultican.com/2025/12/19/the-edreports-scam/ #Privatization
Retired school administrator Denis Smith wrote this piece for the Ohio Capitol Journal, detailing a visit to the annual conference of the Ohio School Boards Association, where he learned that discontent over Ohio’s voucher program– and the lawmakers who back it– runs pretty deep. #Privatization
PFPS Submits Public Comments Opposing Federal Voucher Program and Forthcoming Regulations - The federal voucher program is yet another example of the Administration's assault on public education and must be rejected. https://pfps.org/pfps-submits-public-comments-opposing-federal-voucher-program-and-forthcoming-regulations.html via @pfpsorg #Privatization
@everton137 @thomas it's called state owned #privatization some 30 years ago ...
The federal voucher program is still on the table, waiting for states to adopt or reject the tax shelter scheme. Writing for The Progressive, Robert Kim explains why states should reject the whole thing. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/robert-kim-states-should-reject-federal-school-voucher-scheme/ #Privatization
Free healthcare for Pokemon is a moral hazard: an essay (for Alberta?). I'm pretty sure the UCP wrote this, following the creation of another "panel" to explore the issue.
"Introduction:
It is assumed that to be the very best like no one ever was, free, high-quality universal healthcare for Pokemon is a necessity. While this is utopian in principle, it poses a serious moral hazard with severe ethical complications.
How can this be?
When trainers can heal Pokemon at zero-cost instantly, they have no incentive to value the lives of Pokemon because all risk to their Pokemon is completely externalized.
The trainer never has to bear the consequences of their high-risk behaviour.
To address this issue, free healthcare should be replaced by a fragmented, byzantine multi-payer healthcare system with risk-adjusted pricing and high out-of-pocket costs.
Problem context and analysis:
When trainers face no consequences for pushing their Pokemon till they “faint” (aka receive severe physical trauma e.g., burns, electrocution etc) but are instead rewarded financially or with social status, they are incentivised to maximise gain through excessive risk taking with the lives of their Pokemon.
What is less obvious but equally insidious are the second order effects of having free, accessible healthcare for Pokemons:
- Free market innovation is stifled: there is no profit incentive for private companies like Silph Co. and Devon Corp. to invest in R&D and drive pharmaceutical innovation. Why would trainers spend Pokedollars on potions when healing is free?
- Pokemon lives have no value: without assigning a price to each Pokemon’s life, free healthcare implies a Pokemon’s life has no value. This implication is fundamentally depraved, heinous and morally reprehensible. It removes any dignity from Pokemon and their entertaining blood sport
Recommendation:
Based on meta-analyses of the most successful healthcare systems around the world, we believe a fragmented, byzantine multi-payer healthcare system with risk-adjusted pricing and high out-of-pocket costs is the best model of success to implement.
By making healthcare for Pokemon expensive, inaccessible and conditional, we can encourage trainers to better value the lives of their sentient, captive fighting assets.
How would this work?
#1: Pokemon healing services will be priced according to the amount of healing needed, with multipliers for rarity and power level. To ensure that even the most worthless Pokemon’s life is valued, a floating price floor based on median healing prices of legendary Pokemons will be used. All Pokemon lives are equal.
Note: there will be no price ceiling on Pokemon healthcare because of the invisible hand, which has been shown to be present across all stages of capitalism, including late-stage capitalism.
#2: Trainers will be assigned a “risk-adjusted profile”, which will be used as an additional coefficient for healing prices. This will include but are not limited to: their win/loss ratio, the types of Pokemon they use and their battling style. Compiling a database of all trainers helps deter bad actors from taking advantage of the system.
#3: Multiple duplicative and redundant healthcare administrative providers will be added to maximise bureaucratic efficiency. This helps prevent any anti-competitive monopolies from forming, mitigating the risk of unaffordable healthcare from monopolistic pricing.
These changes do not make Pokemon healthcare less accessible or force a disproportionate financial burden on all but the highest net-worth trainers. This is in fact preventative care.
Prohibitively expensive healthcare does not price out the poor - it incentives holistic wellness that focuses on preventing problems before they even happen."
https://www.missingthepoint.io/p/free-healthcare-for-pokemon-is-a?r=6l5gvi
Will Cyber Charter Company Stride Run School For Texas Immigration Prison - The ads state that Stride is “currently seeking to create a pipeline of experienced Educators.” https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/will-cyber-charter-company-stride?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #Privatization
Andru Volinsky breaks down a New Hampshire Supreme Court opinion that bolsters the open enrollment law threatening school districts across the state. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/andru-volinsky-open-enrollment-predator-schools/ #Privatization
Trump admin:💔plans to eliminate 35K #Healthcare jobs at the chronically understaffed VA that🚨already lost 10s of 1000s of employees.
"For years we have said the Republican goal was to privatize the VA, & Project 2025 underscored that.🚨Now, the #VA is about to transfer a $TRILLION worth of VA care to the for-profit sector, & ask that it only adhere to private HC IND standards of care."
-Vote Vets
#Veterans #TrumpRegime #Lies #Privatization #GOPDeathCult #Protest #USPol
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-cutting-va-jobs
For-Profit Immigrant Prison Will Hire For-Profit Virtual Charter School for Children Detained for Months - Part of Steven Miller's campaign of cruelty and morals don't count. https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/for-profit-immigrant-prison-will-hire-for-profit-virtual-charter-school-for-children-detained-for-months/ via @janresseger #Privatization
#Wisconsin Communities Fight to Save County-Owned #NursingHomes from #Privatization.
https://dailyyonder.com/wisconsin-communities-fight-to-save-county-owned-nursing-homes-from-privatization/2025/12/16/
As counties across Wisconsin sell off publicly-owned nursing homes to private companies, communities worry that privatization will bring understaffing,
The War on Public Education Hurts the Most Vulnerable Students - For the last few decades there has been a war on public education driven by propaganda, ideology and greed. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/12/15/the-war-on-public-education-hurts-the-most-vulnerable-students/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
The investments, the premiums paid by Albertans into their public healthcare insurance system over a lifetime of work are being flat-out
STOLEN
by privatization:
They paid into the public system their whole working lives, but now they must pay up again, privately
"Health Canada said a membership system was contrary to a federal law protecting people from paying for medically necessary care, as it meant Albertans were paying for preferential access to doctors."
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